OTHERWISEis premiering the first single, “Darker Side Of The Moon,” from their forthcoming sophomore album PEACE AT ALL COSTS on RevolverMag.com. The song is presented with an epic lyric video, and is available now on all digital platforms including both iTunes and Amazon. The full album will hit this fall!

“Darker Side of the Moon is just the beginning of the journey that we plan to take with everyone. The Moon is a heavenly body that we’ve come to cherish and worship throughout our meager lives… but there is another side to it that most of us know nothing about. We hope that our album PEACE AT ALL COSTS will help the world navigate the depths of its own darkness and break through into the Light on the other side.” ~ Adrian Patrick (Lead Vocals)

Take a trip to the “Darker Side Of The Moon”here, or just scroll to the bottom of the page to see the video.

PEACE AT ALL COSTS is the second full-length album for the Las Vegas natives. It serves as the follow up to the band’s 2012 breakthrough album, TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES, which sold over 55,000 albums and 275,000 singles including the hit songs “Soldiers,” “I Don’t Apologize (1000 Pictures)” & “Die For You.”

“Darker Side Of The Moon” Available now at all digital platforms including Amazon & iTunes. Catch OTHERWISE on tour at any one of the following stops.

“Darker Side Of The Moon” is the lead single from Las Vegas rockers OTHERWISE‘s new album PEACE AT ALL COSTS. The single will be unleashed next month to Active Rock radio and available on all digital platforms starting July 8 via Century Media Records. PEACE AT ALL COSTS will be in stores at the end of this Summer.

OTHERWISE singer, Adrian Patrick comments:

“‘Darker Side of the Moon’ is just the beginning of the journey that we plan to take with everyone. The Moon is a heavenly body that we’ve come to cherish and worship throughout our meager lives… but there is another side to it that most of us know nothing about. We hope that our album Peace At All Costs will help the world navigate the depths of its own darkness and break through into the Light on the other side.”

PEACE AT ALL COSTS is the follow up to the bands 2012’s breakthrough album, TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES which sold over 55,000 albums and 275,000 singles including the hit songs “Soldiers,” “I Don’t Apologize (1000 Pictures) & “Die For You.” TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES was hailed as one of that year’s biggest breakout albums from a new band! The rapid success of the album earned them invitations to all the North American Rock festivals including Rock On The Range, Aftershock, Rocklahoma, Carolina Rebellion & Welcome To Rockville!

January 24, 2014–Monster Energy’s Fort Rock—Southwest Florida’s biggest rock festival—returns to JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida for its second year on Saturday, April 26 with a stellar rock lineup featuring co-headlining superstars Korn, Rob Zombie, and Five Finger Death Punch, along with Seether, Theory of a Deadman, Black Stone Cherry, Sick Puppies, Trivium, Skindred, The Pretty Reckless, KYNG, Nothing More, Twelve Foot Ninja, and more.

“5FDP is incredibly excited to be part of the kickoff of the World’s Loudest Month,” says Five Finger Death Punch’s Jeremy Spencer. “Having already ‘rocked’ Rockville, this will be our first time bringing it to Fort Myers. We are blessed to have so many fans in Florida that made it possible for the band to step up as a festival headliner standing beside giants like Korn and Rob Zombie! Thank you, Florida. See you all soon!”

The festival is offering a special discounted ticket pre-sale from January 28-30. During the pre-sale, a limited number of discounted general admission tickets will be available for purchase for the following prices (plus fees):

Regularly priced General Admission and VIP tickets for Monster Energy’s Fort Rock go on sale Friday, January 31 at 10:00 AM ET at www.FortRockFestival.com and all Ticketmaster outlets. General Admission tickets start at $49.50 and VIP tickets start at $99.50, with ticket prices increasing on February 10. In addition, select Pita Pit locations will be selling General Admission tickets for $50, with no service fees. A limited number of discounted GA military tickets will be available for just $29 via www.govx.com. Visit www.FortRockFestival.com for full details.

“After a great first year, we couldn’t be more excited to return to JetBlue Park with an amazing band lineup and fantastic partners,” says Monster Energy’s Fort Rock co-producer Clay Busch of Danny Wimmer Presents.

Monster Energy’s Fort Rock is the kickoff event to a series of festivals produced by Danny Wimmer Presents and AEG Live, that also includes the massively successful Rock On The Range, and Carolina Rebellion festivals. Monster Energy’s Fort Rock is also part of the Florida kickoff—along with Monster Energy’s Welcome To Rockville in Jacksonville—of the World’s Loudest Month. The World’s Loudest Month was created in partnership by AEG Live and Danny Wimmer Presents and features the biggest names in rock music performing in six distinct concert atmospheres across the country on five consecutive weekends.

JetBlue Park is the spring training home of the 2013 World Champion Boston Red Sox, located at 11500 Fenway South Drive in Fort Myers, Florida.

World’s Loudest Month, created in partnership by AEG Live and Danny Wimmer Presents, continues to grow in 2014. Featuring the biggest names in rock music performing in seven distinct U.S. concert atmospheres, the World’s Loudest Month is excited to announce the addition of two new festivals, as well as the 2014 festival dates. In 2013, the World’s Loudest Monthfeatured over 125 artists playing for more than a quarter of a million rock music fans across the country on five consecutive weekends, confirming that rock music is as vital as ever.

The 2014 World’s Loudest Month festival events and dates are as follows:

“When we created the World’s Loudest Month platform, we did it with the goal of growing it to become the launch pad for rock festival fans across the country,” comments Joe Litvag, Co-Executive Producer. “We’re excited to add Fort Myers to the mix in 2014, which further expands our reach for the rock genre.”

The World’s Loudest Month kick-off weekend begins in the Sunshine state of Florida with Monster Energy’s Welcome To Rockville, April 26 and 27. Florida’s largest rock festival returns to North Florida for its fourth year and–along with the addition of Fort Rock (Fort Myers, FL) on April 26–kicks off WLM! Only the state of Florida could handle two major events on the same day! For ticket specials, hotel and VIP packages, visit www.welcometorockville.com and www.fortrockfestival.com.

“I’ve been saying all year that I keep hearing rock is ‘dead,’ yet record numbers attend our shows every year. Our festivals are for music fans who buck trends and remain true to the music they like. Our job as tastemakers in rock and roll is to find the markets where music fans are underserved and I am happy to add Fort Rock to our World’s Loudest Month and include it on the same weekend with Welcome To Rockville,“ says Danny Wimmer, Co-Executive Producer.

Next up is Carolina Rebellion, returning to Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina for its second consecutive year. With on-site camping, amazing VIP packages and a lineup featuring today’s biggest bands, in four short years Carolina Rebellion has quickly grown to be the Carolinas’ Biggest Weekend of Rock. www.CarolinaRebellion.com

Rock On The Range–the nation’s biggest and most-acclaimed active rock festival–will grow to three full days in 2014 after a successful expanded Friday Night in 2013. Over 105,000 die-hard Rangers attended ROTR last year, traveling to Columbus, OH from all 50 states and over the globe, resulting in a sellout for the first time since the inaugural, one-day Rock on the Range in 2007. Pre-sale Layaway tickets go on sale on Monday, December 2, and VIP, hotel, and camping packages go on sale Thursday, December 5 at www.RockOnTheRange.com

Rocklahoma–America’s biggest Memorial Day Weekend party–continues to be the ultimate destination Rock event in the country. The three-day camp & rock festival features the top current active and classic rock artists at “Catch the Fever” Festival Grounds in Pryor, OK. Ticket renewals for 2014 will be available starting Monday, December 2. To renew your 2013 ticket location, call the box office at (866) 310-2288. www.Rocklahoma.com

RockFest celebrates its astounding 22nd year in 2014. Drawing crowds in excess of 55,000 annually at Penn Valley Park in downtown Kansas City, RockFest is definitely worthy of its title as “the BIGGEST one-day music festival in the United States.”www.RockfestKC.com

The World’s Loudest Monthmobile app (available via iTunes and Android), released in 2013, will be updated early next year and will feature all festival information, the latest rock news, exclusive songs from current and previous WLM bands, and more. Band lineups and additional details for each festival will be announced in early 2014.

Monster Energy returns as a sponsor of the World’s Loudest Month for the second year in a row, along with the valued partnerships with Jägermeister, Jack Daniel’s and Ernie Ball. The World’s Loudest Month is also working with Revolver Magazine to bring you exclusive news, interviews and photos of all the festivals.

July 8, 2013–The first annual 96 K-ROCK presents Rockwave Festival will be held Saturday, September 21 at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida.

Rockwave will feature seminal alternative rock bands Jane’s Addiction and Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington, along with performances from Filter, Anberlin, Beware Of Darkness, and an opening band TBA performing on the Monster Main Stage.

A special discounted ticket pre-sale for Rockwave Festival will take place from July 16-18 at www.rockwavefest.com. During the pre-sale, a limited number of discounted general admission tickets will be available for purchase for the following prices (plus fees):

Tuesday, July 16: $19.50Wednesday, July 17: $24.99Thursday, July 18: $34.99

“I’m super excited to help launch the new 96 K-ROCK radio station in Ft. Myers, with Jane’s Addiction and Stone Temple Pilots, Filter, Anberlin and one of my new favorite acts Beware Of Darkness,” says festival creator/producer Danny Wimmer of Danny Wimmer Presents. “What a great party it’s going to be to close out the summer.”

Regularly priced general admission and VIP tickets go on sale Friday, July 19 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time at www.rockwavefest.com, Ticketmaster.com and at all Ticketmaster outlets. Beginning July 19, General Admission tickets will be $45.00 (plus fees) and VIP tickets will be $89.50 (plus fees). Doors open at 1:00 PM.

VIP tickets include: a VIP entrance to venue; access to VIP lounge area featuring dedicated bar, beverage and food service; viewing of main stage (seated and standing areas); seated area with shade for dining and private restroom facilities; and a VIP guest laminate.

96 K-ROCK presents Rockwave Festival is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents and AEG Live, part of the team that produces the massively successful Rock On The Range, Carolina Rebellion, Welcome To Rockville, and Fort Myers’ own Fort Rock festival. 96 K-ROCK presents Rockwave Festival is fueled by Monster Energy.

JetBlue Park is the spring training home of the Boston Red Sox and is located at 11500 Fenway South Drive in Fort Myers, Florida. It’s also the home to the Fort Rock music festival, which debuted April 14, 2013.

For those that haven’t heard, Carolina Rebellion‘s Sunday show was cancelled after only 6 bands played due to weather issues. While the Tickets said Rain or Shine, the event organizers obviously hadn’t figured on any rain whatsoever because there were no screens around the stages to protect against any weather. After a late start, and several bands not taking the stage, Buckcherry was the last band to take the stage. Three hours later the event was finally officially cancelled. The crowd was less than pleased.

Mainly due to the complete lack of information coming from the event organizers. They had a Twitter Feed and a Facebook page that was being updated all day telling everyone to come out that the show was still on. And then once it got too bad for the bands to play (or the bands simply refused to play in those conditions), they stopped updating the feeds.

Put 30,000 people in a mud pit, in the cold and rain, and then don’t give them anything to do for 3 hours. Promise them a show Rain or Shine and then leave them to their own devices for three hours with no communication. They’re lucky the crowd of predominantly drunk rednecks didn’t tear down the stages for them directly on top of them.

This after 3 years of questionable decisions on what they are trying to create as a world renown festival. The first year the organizers didn’t expect more than 10-15,000 attendees. 30,000 people showed up. There simply were not enough facilities or concessions to handle double the expected occupancy.

Year two had them move the location of the festival to the middle of nowhere in Rockingham, NC. It was a giant dustbowl with brutal heat and sun and absolutely no where to go to get out of it.

Year three saw them move the event for the third time. A much better location as far as having parking and hotels around it to stay at. It is now housed outside the Charlotte Motor Speedway, and overall it seemed like a good location. However the stages were so far apart and the bands started on one stage as the last note was still ringing out on the other so that you missed the first couple of songs of each band. There was simply no way to get from one stage to the other while wadding through 29,999 other people in a timely fashion.

And then there was the weather this year canceling the first two day event in the history of Carolina Rebellion.

The organizers, AEG LIVE and THIRD ARM Entertainment have released the following statement on their website announcing their plan to partially reimburse concert goers or offer them a free 2nd day ticket to next year’s event.

Please forgive the length of this letter. But we feel we have some explaining to do.

First, we want to thank each and every one of you for enduring the rain and coming out to show the country just how hardcore the Rebels really are. We also want to thank you for sticking with us and for taking the time to voice your comments, praise and criticism.

We’ve had some bumps in making Carolina Rebellion into the massive, world-recognized festival we believe it can be. We produce many successful events around the country, including Rock on the Range, Welcome to Rockville, and Rocklahoma, and we see great things for Rebellion. But before we can grow it, we have to earn your trust. Therefore we want to let you know where we think we’ve gone wrong and what we’re doing to fix it.

A successful festival must have a predictable experience. And to be predictable, we have to be in the same venue each year. For three years we have tried different locations and are happy to say that we feel that Rock City Campground at Charlotte Motor Speedway is the right venue, and we hope to make it our long term home. By staying in the same place, we can focus on improving the overall festival experience. For instance, we are looking at how to better position the stages and the time between bands. You have also asked about the extent of the weather protection for the stages themselves. We are addressing this with the staging company and will consider bringing in different pieces of equipment next year that provide more protection from the elements. Please keep sharing your thoughts and ideas. We want you to know that we are listening, and we will keep listening.

Regarding the late cancellation due to inclement weather, many of you have pointed out that the tickets say “Rain or Shine.” That is true, unless and until safety becomes an issue. This is no different than any large sporting event or other outdoor event. We were monitoring the weather in real-time from the National Weather Service and coordinating with the bands and local law enforcement every step of the way. In hindsight, we regret not giving you more information on how, if, and when the show might continue. Our lack of information was not meant to be deceitful. The weather pattern was constantly changing on Sunday, making it difficult to give you a concrete message, and we all were really hoping the weather would clear and the show could continue. By 7:15pm, it was decided by all parties that conditions were not going to improve and that it was unsafe to keep going.

We absolutely did have a cancellation plan in place with local law enforcement. That plan required that before making a cancellation announcement, we had to forewarn our staff and security to ensure a safe and orderly exit. It takes a bit of time to make sure that message has been communicated to all. Once we had everyone in place to manage a safe exit, the public announcement was made. As unpleasant as the rain was for all of us, it was imperative to only release information in an organized and safe fashion.

Your safety is not our only responsibility. We are also responsible for your experience. We want a long term relationship with you. And while we appreciate that many of you have pointed out that we cannot control the weather, we don’t feel that we did all that we could under the circumstances to maximize your experience. Many of you have asked about a make-up date. We would love to do that but it takes many months to plan an event of this magnitude, and there are many variables involved, most importantly artist availability. We just cannot give you a guarantee today of when and how we would put on that event or what bands would play or where it could be held.

So, we’ve decided to do the next best thing by giving you a ticket to next year’s Sunday show day absolutely FREE. That’s right, you will receive the financial equivalent of a Rebellion general admission ticket for Sunday and it won’t cost you anything. We also understand that some of you may not be able to or want to attend Carolina Rebellion next year. Rather than just say we are sorry, we want to make sure everyone is offered something. So, if you are not interested in a free ticket to next year’s Sunday show, you can instead opt for a 20% refund of the face value of your 2013 ticket purchase.

Here is how this process will work:
1. Click on this link anytime now through Tuesday, May 14th at 11:59pm ET to “Register A Claim” with Rebellion. You will be asked to fill out a form that will include your 2013 Ticket Confirmation Number, name on credit card, address, phone, email, etc. The form will also ask you if you would like to opt for the free Sunday show ticket in 2014 or the partial refund of your 2013 purchase. Note that we will not be extending this deadline, so please make sure to register your claim by the cutoff date and time.

2. After we have received all of the registered claims, we will verify your 2013 purchase information within our system to make sure everything matches, and we will begin processing the claims. Note that this will take some time, so please be patient, but we will get to all claims.

3. If you request a partial refund, we will initiate a credit with your credit card company or issue you a check. If you request a free Sunday show ticket to the 2014 festival, we will send you a unique code via email when we announce the 2014 festival info, and you will have a specified period of time to use the code to make your purchase at that time, which will include the free Sunday ticket. The unique code will deduct an amount equivalent to the base general admission ticket price for one day from your purchase.

We truly do value each and every one of you, because without you, there will be no Carolina Rebellion. Because it is impossible to customize a remedy for each individual, we are trying to do what the majority of you are asking for. We look forward to 2014, a bigger and better experience for you, and hopefully for much better weather.

If you have further questions, please feel free to email us at rebellioninfo@aeglive.com or leave a voice mail message on our hotline,
314-726-8020. We will get back to you as quickly as we can.

Updated band performance times have been announced for Carolina Rebellion, the Carolinas’ BIGGEST Weekend of Rock. Carolina Rebellion has grown to two full days in its third year and takes place May 4 & 5 at Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte. Carolina Rebellion 2013 features a lineup full of rock heavyweights, including: Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Limp Bizkit, Rise Against, Bush, Deftones, and many more.

Don’t wait, get your tickets now! Weekend General Admission tickets for Carolina Rebellion are currently available for only $139 plus fees, and Single Day tickets are currently $79.50 plus fees.

At the door, Weekend GA tickets will be $149 and Single Day GA tickets will be $89. Active military with valid military ID, will receive a $20 discount off Single Day GA tickets. Military 4-Packs still available while supplies last.

A limited number of upgrades are still available at current prices! Prices will increase at the door as follows, and are only available with a Weekend GA ticket purchase:
Friday Night Party Upgrade: $30
VIP Lounge Upgrade: $125
Basic Tent Space Upgrade (Includes Friday Night Party): $135
Basic RV Upgrade (No Hookups and Includes Friday Night Party): $160
RV Full Hookup Upgrade (Includes Friday Night Party): $260

The band performance times for Carolina Rebellion are now available at www.CarolinaRebellion.com. The Mid-Atlantic’s biggest rock festival–which has grown to two full days in its third year–takes place May 4 & 5 at Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte.

Weekend General Admission tickets for Carolina Rebellion are available for only $119 plus fees, and Single Day tickets are now $69.50 plus fees. General admission parking is included with each paid ticket.

A limited number of Camping, Hotel and VIP Packages and upgrades are also still available. Details for all Camping, Hotel and VIP packages can be found at www.CarolinaRebellion.com.

The Carolina Rebellion Campgrounds open on Friday, May 3 at noon and close at noon on Monday, May 6. General admission, ADA, VIP and motorcycle parking lots will open at 7:00 AM on Saturday, May 4 and at 8:00 AM on Sunday, May 5. Festival doors open at 9:00 AM on Saturday and 10:00 AM on Sunday. For full event details, go to www.carolinarebellion.com/info.

Carolina Rebellion is proud to be sponsored by Monster Energy, Jägermeister, U.S. Army and f.y.e. Carolina Rebellion is produced by Right Arm Entertainment and AEG Live, the same team that produces the highly successful Rock On The Range in Columbus, OH.

Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway is located at 7301 Bruton Smith Blvd. in Concord, NC, just outside Charlotte, and less than two hours from Raleigh/Durham, Columbia and Greensboro. Visit www.CharlotteMotorSpeedway.com for directions and additional venue information.

An expanded Carolina Rebellion returns May 4 & 5 at Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte. After uncharted success in 2012, the Mid-Atlantic’s biggest rock festival is growing to two full days in its third year and will feature more camping and VIP space at its new location.

The bands listed above will perform on one of the three festival stages: the Monster Energy ‘Carolina Stage’, the Monster Energy ‘Rebellion Stage’ and the Jägermeister Stage. In addition, f.y.e will have a special artist tent where bands will stop by throughout the day to meet fans and sign their CDs.

“After wrapping up our last U.S. tour, we were planning on recharging our batteries for awhile, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to play with the mighty Soundgarden in what will be one of the only shows we’ll play in the U.S. this year,” says Tim Mcllrath of Rise Against.

Michael Poulsen of Volbeat comments, “In Europe and the U.S., we have enjoyed the experiences that come from being a part of the festival environment, just as the fans do. Looking forward to Carolina Rebellion!”

“The ‘Rebels’ spoke and we listened,” says Gary Spivack, Co-Executive Producer of the event for Right Arm Entertainment. “More days, a new venue, huge bands…It’s our mission for Rebellion to be the biggest and best rock festival in the entire Mid-Atlantic region. We have our home at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and can’t wait for May 4 and 5!”

Full Weekend General Admission tickets for Carolina Rebellion go on sale to the public Friday, February 8 at 10am EST, as do Single Day General Admission tickets, all at www.CarolinaRebellion.com. Full Weekend tickets will be available starting at $99 plus fees, and Single Day tickets will start at $59.50 plus fees. Parking is included with all tickets.

To get access to the special internet presale, which will be held from Wednesday, February 6 through Thursday, February 7, go to the Carolina Rebellion Facebook page or www.CarolinaRebellion.com and sign up to receive the Rebellion newsletter. Those who sign up can purchase the Full Weekend General Admission tickets for just $89 plus fees during the presale only.

Once again, ticket discounts will also be available for active military. For full details about military ticket discounts, go to www.CarolinaRebellion.com.

Carolina Rebellion will feature an even greater variety of Camping, Hotel and VIP Packages and upgrades. All Camping and Hotel Packages will also include access to the Friday night campground party. Details for all Camping, Hotel and VIP packages can be found at www.CarolinaRebellion.com.

“Holding Carolina Rebellion at Charlotte Motor Speedway gives us the ability to create an even better experience for our fans,” comments Joe Litvag, Co-Executive Producer of the festival for AEG Live. “We have more space to expand, easier access in and out, upgraded tent and RV camping opportunities, and lots of participating hotels to cater to our crowd. But most importantly we’re able to continue to offer incredible value by keeping our ticket prices low while the festival grows in stature each year.”

Carolina Rebellion is proud to be sponsored by Monster Energy, Jägermeister, U.S. Army and f.y.e.Carolina Rebellion is produced by Right Arm Entertainment and AEG Live, the same team that produces the highly successful Rock On The Range in Columbus, OH.

There are many bands I want a live CD from. Nickelback is one of them. You need to see Nickelback live. Why? Because they are so much heavier live than they are on CD, everything comes across crunchier, faster, fatter, and rocks the hell out. Nickelback live is good Nickelback, you can say whatever you want about their CDs. However, I am afraid that a live Nickelback CD might have the same issue a live Staind CD has.

My first Staind show was in 07 as they headlined the shed I worked at in Raleigh. I didn’t expect much from them because I didn’t think their music would translate well live. It seemed a bit too brooding and monolithic to come across live. I was wrong. It was a great show. High energy music that just grabbed you and moved you.

I saw them again this past summer at Carolina Rebellion (you can see the pictures HERE) and I was surprised how different it seemed to me. It could simply be that it was 3pm in the afternoon, it was 90 degrees in the shade, and we were all just dazed and confused by the merciless heat. But the set seemed to lack the energy that I had witnessed a few years earlier.

So I randomly get the new Staind live CD in the mail. I’ve like many of their songs over the years, and like I said, I enjoyed their live show a few years ago. So it is with mixed feelings I throw the CD in and begin listening. It takes about two thirds of the way through the CD before I get to a song I like, yes I recognized the radio hits but I said songs I like! And without the visual of the live show it strikes me that I was actually right about Staind live, it is a little plodding, a little dirge like, a little slow and low energy.

The slower angstier Staind songs don’t work on a live CD setting to me. The slow tempo just seems to drag, and while Aaron may scream his way through it trying to emote and evoke a response and strike a chord with the crowd, the songs just don’t pop for me.

Finally we get to a song that works, For You. And yet, somehow it loses steam in the middle of the song. You hear that shit on the CD and it just stomps like a juggernaut from beginning to end. Live his voice is a little strained, and the music is all low end and somehow falters. Again if there were visuals to go along with it, and we could see the band and crowd it might work better. Especially since the break down Aaron has the crowd sing along with him.

Outside will never be as good as it was on the Family Values tour that was released as a single with him and Fred Durst. Not because of Fred Durst mind you, just because, it works so much better just Aaron and an acoustic guitar. With the band backing him the song loses the intimacy (yeah, there were 20,000 people in the crowd for Family Values but the song had an intimacy to it) that you feel with the single. And of course he has the crowd sing the chorus and they’re a beat off and it kills the song.

It’s Been Awhile may be the highlight of the set. It is a slower plodding song yes, but it seems to come across better than the others. Oh, wait, there’s the breakdown… Sorry, I was wrong.

Let’s just get to Mudshovel; they can’t fuck that up right? I mean, this is the song that put Staind on the map. Goddamnit. Whoever began this bullshit sing along crap needs to be drawn and quartered. I want the artist to sing, I don’t want to sing, I didn’t pay upwards of $100 to see you just to have to sing for YOU. See how that works, I pay you, you sing to me. I don’t want to hear the crowd sing, I don’t want to do a sing along, a Staind show isn’t even a ‘feel good’ show, it’s all Emo and angsty. So why are 3,000 people in a casino being forced to sing along to a diatribe song about a man digging through the depths of his soul trying to get past the girl that ripped his heart out and filleted it in front of him?

The only sing along that has ever worked (and only once mind you) was on Tom Petty’s Pack Up The Plantation when he starts Breakdown and the crowd starts singing the song before him, and he lets them sing three quarters of the whole thing. It is organic, it was a moment in time, he didn’t tell them to sing along, they just started and were so loud he just stepped away from the mic and let them continue. That is an awesome moment in time captured on a live recording. This bullshit today of bands forcing you to sing along with them. I don’t want to be part of your band; I want you to dance like the monkey I paid you to be. Perform for me and get on with it. If I wanted to sing I’d do it naturally, not because you tell me and everyone else in the room to do it.

And you’re singing country now, so how ‘angsty’ can you be? Or did you just change in your ‘mommy and daddy didn’t love me growing up’ for a little, ‘my truck broke down after she ran over my dog with it’?

Wait, wait…Something to Remind You might just be THE highlight of the CD for me. Never heard this song before. It is just Aaron and a guitar. It is what Outside should still be. There’s no sing along, there’s no plodding, it is just… a very cool song and great way to end the show. So, if for nothing else, Something to Remind You is why you want to pick up this live CD.